Translation
patience
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Examples
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I need a lot of patience.
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His patience is great.
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She lost her patience and cried out.
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With patience one achieves everything.
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The teacher had patience with the children.
The adjective comes first: is patient, and -- turns the quality into the thing you run out of. From there the family builds itself without a dictionary: patiently, a impatient, o impatience. The person you are being patient with takes , the thing you are enduring takes , so but o. English speakers reach for "patient" as a hospital noun too; that one is in Esperanto, a separate root, and mixing the two is a common slip in medical texts.
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Word family
Words built on pacienco with Esperanto's affixes. Read each one from its parts.
- malpaciencaadjective
impatient
mal-pacienco: the opposite of patient
- malpacienconoun
impatience
mal-pacienco: the opposite of patience
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Start your free weekThis word is taught in chapter 10, lesson 9: pacienco, solena, situacio and 7 more words.